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The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War

£21.99

Product description

This pioneering collection of essays ranges widely, discussing such varied issues as labour supply, mechanisation, organic farming, wartime planning and the requisition of land. It asks, for the first time, pertinent questions of agriculture in the Second World War, sometimes arriving at answers which are uncomfortable and revisionist. It points the way to a new understanding of crucial industry's performance in wartime.

Item details

Author(s):

Brian Short, Charles Watkins, and John Martin

Condition:

Used: good

Edition:

2007

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

238

Publisher:

The British Agricultural History Society

Title:

The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War

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About this item

This pioneering collection of essays ranges widely, discussing such varied issues as labour supply, mechanisation, organic farming, wartime planning and the requisition of land. It asks, for the first time, pertinent questions of agriculture in the Second World War, sometimes arriving at answers which are uncomfortable and revisionist. It points the way to a new understanding of crucial industry's performance in wartime.

Author(s):

Brian Short, Charles Watkins, and John Martin

Condition:

Used: good

Edition:

2007

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

238

Publisher:

The British Agricultural History Society

Title:

The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War

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